21 WFMJ archives / June 10,  1993 | Gloria Freeman of Aliquippa, Pa., wiped a tear from the face of her nephew, Golllin Freeman Jr., after he graduated from South High School in Youngstown 33 years ago. He was a member of the last graduating class at South, which closed at the end of the 1992-93 academic year. 

June 10 

2000: Youngstown State University faculty, staff, friends, and well-wishers bid farewell to YSU President Dr. Leslie Cochran and his wife, Lin, during a retirement celebration in Beeghly Hall.

Atty. Edward A. Flask faces as much as 74 months in prison after pleading guilty to nine of 16 counts tied to consulting fees, tickets to athletic events, and other favors received while he was on the board of the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District. Prosecutor Vincent Vigluicci hints that the sentence could be affected by what Flask tells prosecutors about operations at the MVSD.

Sculptor George Segal, whose realistic life-size works include "Depression Bread Line" at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt memorial in Washington and "The Steelmakers" sculpture in Youngstown, dies at his New Jersey home. He was 75. 

1985: Niles McKinley High School holds its graduation ceremony outside because the high school is being used as a disaster center. Eyes were kept on the skies because the ceremony was being held under a tornado watch, just 10 days after deadly tornadoes swept through the area. 

Edward J. Gilronan, a successful insurance man and 12-year Mahoning County commissioner known for his fiscal conservatism and criticism of "courthouse extravagance," dies at 84.

Bread shelves in grocery stores are nearly bare as a strike by truck drivers for three area bakeries enters its third day. 

1975: Liberty Township police end three days of "blue flu" following six hours of mediation by Trumbull Common Pleas Judge David McClain. Negotiations will continue. 

A large contingent of business and civic leaders appears at an Interstate Commerce Commission hearing in Youngstown to oppose the abandonment of the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad line between Lisbon and Niles. 

City Centre One and the Mahoning County Courthouse are without water after a 12-inch line in front of the Legal Arts Building ruptured. Jurors are sent home, and county offices run on skeleton crews. 

1950: City Hall elevator operator Charles Llewellyn and a woman passenger are stranded for 20 minutes when the elevator stalls between the first and second floors. 

John Garziani, 34, a New Castle truck driver, is pinned in his cab for more than an hour after his truck tears down a "hot" trolley line in Campbell. 

The Mahoning Valley's three main reservoirs, which hold a combined capacity of 75 billion gallons, are more than three-quarters full.